The screens in schools thread
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We are never going to be able to shelter our kids completely, but anything within reason that we can do to keep these kids away from online anonymous assholes is okay by me...
Please. These kids are clowns. It’s 50 degrees and raining here. Daughter texts me can you drive me to school. Yep. Mom is gone to work. Daughter comes out of the house in shorts Kendall Jenner would be too shy to wear to Coachella. I bust out laughing. Don’t even get in the car.We are never going to be able to shelter our kids completely, but anything within reason that we can do to keep these kids away from online anonymous assholes is okay by me...
Comes back out in a hoodie and baggy sweats. Those shorts hidden in her backpack I’m sure
My kids getting phones after middle school had NOTHING to do with fears of school shootings.
There were multiple incidents of school busses breaking down and we had to find out where to go to pick them up.
There were afterschool activities with uncertain pickup times.
There were afterschool bus trips for sports away games and we needed to coordinate pick-ups.
The craziness was eventually multiplied by having THREE kids, all with overlapping afterschool activities. I remember times where I would pick up kid A, meet my wife in a parking lot and give her kid A, then go to pick up kid B, while she went to go pick up kid C and drop off kid A at another activity, such as scouts.
How did we ever do it when we were young?
Again, my concern is during school hours not so much before or after. That's another topic entirely.
I think we should move to a hard and fast rule that kids have to drop off their cell phones when they enter a school and pick them up as they leave.
I likely agree although paper still allows for less distraction (unless it's a pupose built e reader that doesn't have apps flashing and banner and notifications and blah blah blah on it).
I just want to make sure we don't offload the necessary instruction from the teacher to the device (and their tech overlords)
My parents said that none of us could do any afterschool stuff. No scouts. No sports. No nothing, until we could drive ourselves. We had hours of farm chores to do on our dairy farm.
You kids either have a phone ot they don't. You can't make it dematerialize in specific hours.
I love the idea of dropping off the phones somewhere during school hours, or (as schools did in my area) leaving it to each teacher to impound them during their class period. It works.
Ok. Your childhood is different than most of us here and current day. I think it worked out for you pretty well though.
You can absolutely make it dematerailze into a locked box for 7 1/2 hrs.
I would make it a school corp wide policy or statewide policy. Don't leave ambiguity to the teachers. It won't benefit them in the long run. Give them a rule to implement and then they don't have to be the bad guy. The admin/state can be.
If this goes on for 90 days it will become a cultural norm the kids won't be able to overcome and, by god, they'll just have to ****ing deal with it.
An interesting movie about this on Netflix called The Social Dilemma.We are never going to be able to shelter our kids completely, but anything within reason that we can do to keep these kids away from online anonymous assholes is okay by me...
Interesting tidbit. The home in the film is a block away and the aerial drone scene is almost in my back yard.
Have I ever told the story of opening my 2nd daughters 3rd grade school picture package. Great picture of her wearing Mardi Gra beeds. The effing photographer and the damn teacher must have be dying laughing knowing what would happen 6 weeks later. When her mother saw the pic. This girl is so much like her father. She's 30 now. Still the same.
